Ok, this seems to have died down a bit, and my own urgency has passed since it is no longer manifesting itself on my test machine....however, two things come to mind:
1. is it possible that arbitrary top output is now suspect on machines that have manifested this behavior ? I am not showing all zeros anymore, but who is to say that what I am seeing is correct ? My vmstat -i now yields: rtc irq8 29272122 66 and I am seeing a rate of 128 on normal systems. So maybe my top output is still wrong, even though it isn't all zeros. 2. What is to be done ? I have no reason to believe this won't crop up on 4.6.2 or later...does anyone else ? thanks. pat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message